Tag Archives: Malware

GoDaddy website servers are some of the latest to fall victim to fall victim to hackers seeking to install malware and cause intermittent redirections on customer website.

The website hosting company shared the news in its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week, explaining a “sophisticated threat actor” conducted the hacking campaign for two years.

GoDaddy officials said in the filing, “In March 2020, we discovered a threat actor compromised the hosting login credentials of approximately 28,000 hosting customers to their hosting accounts, as well as the login credentials of a small number of our personnel.”

FTX SAYS HACKERS STOLE $415M AFTER…

GitHub is a popular code repository used by almost all software developers. Anyone can access it to share their code with practically anyone interested. Unfortunately, not every GitHub user is trustworthy. It has, in fact, been used to host malware at least a couple of times.

In March 2018, for instance, cybercriminals hosted cryptocurrency mining malware on GitHub. More recently, a researcher reportedly used the repository to host several malicious projects. WhoisXML API threat researcher Dancho Danchev took a closer look at one such campaign using six domains and subdomains as jump-off points.

Danchev’s findings led to the discovery of:

• More than 90 active IP resolutions of the domains and subdomains identified as indicators of compromise (IoCs), four of which were…

A new traffic direction system (TDS) called Parrot has been spotted leveraging tens of thousands of compromised websites to launch further malicious campaigns.

“The TDS has infected various web servers hosting more than 16,500 websites, ranging from adult content sites, personal websites, university sites, and local government sites,” Avast researchers Pavel Novák and Jan Rubín said in a report published last week.

Traffic direction systems are used by threat actors to determine whether or not a target is of interest and should be redirected to a malicious domain under their control and act as a gateway to compromise their systems with malware.

Earlier this January, the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team detailed another TDS called Prometheus that has been put to use in…

You must be aware of the significance of security in cyberspace. In today’s world, cybercriminals do not change according to the businesses. Instead, owners have to mold their business functions according to the current cybercrimes.

Reports show that hackers can compromise 93% of the company networks today. It shows how lenient we have been throughout all these days regarding website security.

But this approach needs to be changed. That is why we have prepared a list of seven tips for you to help repel malware attacks and prevent hackers from gaining authorized access.

Let’s take a look at 7 ways to secure your website in 2022!

1. Prioritize plugin and software updates

Software updates should be your top priority simply because they can prevent a malware attack.

A CMS…

Do you own and host a website? While hosting your website has many advantages—you get to own the server, host whatever you want, don’t get ripped off by pricing on hosting services, and never have to worry about hosting on a shared platform—it does come with some repercussions.

Malware and viruses are the biggest risks factors for websites and can infect servers and the web hosting control platform, cPanel, easily and go under the radar. Self-hosting makes this especially risky.

So, how can you check if your website has malware and viruses? How does malware infiltrate cPanel in the first place? And how can you scan your Web Host Manager (WHM) and cPanel account?

Is Your Website Infected With Malware?

Despite all the website protection tools available on the market,…